BEST DIRECTOR

Alfred Hitchcock — Rebecca (1940)
William Wyler — The Letter (1940)
Otto Preminger — Laura (1944)
Billy Wilder — Double Indemnity (1944)
Billy Wilder — Lost Weekend (1945) WINNER
Alfred Hitchcock — Spellbound (1945)
Robert Siodmak — The Killers (1946)
Edward Dmytryk — Crossfire (1947)
Carol Reed — The Fallen Idol (1948)
Carol Reed — The Third Man (1949)
John Huston — The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Billy Wilder — Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Robert Wise — The Bad Seed (1958)